Hetampur, Bihar

Hetampur
हेतमपुर
Village
Hetampur

Location in Bihar, India

Coordinates: 25°30′12″N 84°24′43″E / 25.5033318°N 84.412014°ECoordinates: 25°30′12″N 84°24′43″E / 25.5033318°N 84.412014°E
Country  India
State Bihar
District Bhojpur
Government
 • Type Democracy
 • Body Panchayati Raj, Govt. of Bihar & Govt. of Republic of India
Elevation 193 m (633 ft)
Languages
 • Official Bhojpuri, Hindi, Urdu
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
PIN 802158
Telephone code 91 53671
Lok Sabha constituency Arrah
Vidhan Sabha constituency Jagdishpur
Website http://bhojpur.bih.nic.in/

Hetampur is a village in Jagdispur tehsil of Bhojpur district, Bihar. Hetampur has its connection with the historical ancient town of Ujjain. It's Police Station is at Tiyar. It is the largest of 91 villages of Jagdispur Block, geographically surrounded by Kataibojh, Araila, Mahuaon and Rangarua villages. There are lot of smaller habitats (called Tolas in local lingo) spread across vast agricultural swathes of Hetampur. Hetampur is a very old village with agro-based economy.

Historical Importance

Ancient grand Lord Shiva temple and adjoining sacred pond

Google Earth This Temple is also known as Prachin Somnath Temple and it has been referred in the Hindu religious book called Mahashivapuran. Important festive occasions associated with Somnath Temple are the Village Fairs (Mela) arranged during Mahashivratri and Shravan Shivratri. Villagers from far flung areas in district come to attend these village fairs. Major attraction of visit is pilgrimage and view of Lord (ancient natural Shivlinga). Also a point of attraction are the drama played by local village young men during Mahashivratri. External Image

Huge Orchards

This village also used to be famous for the big Mango orchards around it. The saying goes that the orchards used to be so dense that even sunlight could not penetrate through it and that was the reason for naming one of the orchards as Anharibagh (The orchard which is ever dark). Sadly the case is not the same now, as the village remains a stark contrast of its old glory due to mindless tree-cutting, deforestation activity and irresponsible attitude of the villagers.

Hetampur Ahra

Another important point of this village is huge man-made barrage and adjoining artificial lake to store rain water to be utilized for irrigation purpose. It's called Hetampur Ahra in local lingo. Hetampur Ahra is almost 2.5 kms long barrage starting in east from Anharibagh to the western periphery of the village. It's a man-made marvel of old time villagers. Apart from having a vast rainwater catchment area in the south, Ahra is also fed water from two irrigation canals of Son River in east and west. There are number of parallel smaller irrigation channels originating from Ahra directs towards North direction which cover 75% of Cultivable lands of Hetampur and it's smaller Tolas. History of the district show that Hetampur never had drought till ninetees even during worst Monsoon Failure years due to Ahra. However, as on date maintenance of Ahra is the biggest victim of irresponsible and partisan caste politics of the villagers. As regards to local and district administration, Hetampur is a village which was never in the focus despite the huge potential and remarkable demography.

Ancient Zamindari lineage

Hetampur used to be a Zamindari village in erstwhile Princely state of Dumraon with its roots with ancient Holy and Princely town of Ujjain till abolition of Zamindari system in India.

Association with Indian Freedom Struggle

Hetampur had lot of pre-independence highly educated and acclaimed personalities who devoted their precious lives for the cause of nation. One of the prominent freedom fighters belonging to this village was Late Narsingh Deo Singh (1914-2005). He was involved with Freedom Struggle during his school days at Uday Pratap College (Kshtriya College), Varanasi. He left his Graduation mid-way to join the freedom struggle and went to jail fighting Britishers during Quit India movement to spend 8 months in Hazaribagh Central Jail alongwith Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee. However, his jail term was cut short because of untimely death of his wife due to illness. By virtue of his association with Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, Sri ND Singh also courted arrest against the GoI decision of banning RSS in 1949 and spent 10 months in Bankipur Central Jail. He was an authority of Mathematics, English, Hindi and Sanskrit Literature. After doing his Masters and B.Ed, Sri Singh became an educationist. He had a vision of getting education to the poor and helpless of this nation and spent his entire life for same. He selflessly spread the light of knowledge through his various assignments as Senior Teacher/ Asst Head Master & Head Master in Brahmapur High School (Bihar), Bihiya High School (Bihar), Marwari Sanatan Vidyalaya, Raniganj (West Bengal) and Hindu Hindi Vidyalaya, Andal (West Bengal). He is still remembered and hugely regarded across the towns and districts where he worked.

Flora & Fauna

Educational Institutes

Area is in desperate need of improvement in the area of Educational facilities. Most of the good schools are located far from the village but few schools are providing bus pickup service to students from village now.

Language

Common dialect is Bhojpuri language. Hindi and Urdu are also used.

Villages near Hetampur

Infrastructure

Village Streets & Bylanes

Of late streets have been paved with bricks and drainage system also has been made. However, both do not have any lasting impact on the quality of life in village due to lack of maintenance and unawareness of villagers.

Buildings

Water

Electricity

Communication Towers

There are two Ground Based Towers providing connectivity to most of the major TSPs.

Banking

Markets

Hospital

The village has a non-functional Government Health Centre. It has negligible medical facility, not to talk of a hospital and if any injury case happens they either go to local doctors like Kesoji,Mahendra doctor or they go to Shahpur or bihya.

Oil pipeline

The village is just 5.2 kms away from Jagdishpur-Haldia pipeline of GAIL and this region will also be benefitted from it in near future.

Connectivity

Railways

Nearest railway station are behea, Banahi and Arrah which is well connected with Major Railway Stations of North and Eastern Railways.

Roadways

Airways

Nearest Airport is Lok Nayak Jayaprakash Airport, Phulwari Sharif, Patna which is nearly 90 km away from Hetampur

Postal Address

Post Office: HETAMPUR, District: Bhojpur, Bihar, Pin Code: 802158 India

References